Statistical methods applied to epidemiology and animal sciences from theory to practice

The aims are to provide statistical skills, for epidemiological purposes, regarding infectious diseases and technopathies of livestock animals, and basic statistics skills helpful both for planning a research study and for understanding the results of experimental tests in animal and veterinary science fields.
The course deals with a general part dedicated to the basic concepts of statistics and the techniques for solving simple experimental analyses using matrix algebra and linear models.
The course will then include an applicative section toward the use of statistical packages both online or installed with a university license (SPSS), for the processing of data from specific case reports and use of the SAS statistical package for the organization of the data, and for the identification of the most suitable statistical procedure for the interpretation of the results.